Android :: How To Protect Private Information From Others?

Jun 23, 2010

I've integrated lots of private information like accounting, messaging, emails, tasks and so on, into desktop widgets and everywhere around the phone. Every so often, someone wants to take a look at the phone and play around. Reading some important stuff is one thing, but people tend to mess the stuff around as well. Have you found a program or a way to protect from that? (other than denying to the people :> ) I guess some kind of shell program that you turn over when someone wants to demo the phone would be a nice solution.

Android :: How to Protect Private information from Others?


LG Ally :: Private Email Account Setup - Detailed Information

Jul 6, 2010

The email account that I use on a regular basis is the email account that my high school set up for me. It is not an account that is organized with a bigger company such as google, yahoo, hotmail, etc. When I tried to set up my email account on my Droid ally, it asks me for a lot of detailed information about my server and then said it could not connect. I used to have a Blackberry Tour and it did not require any information other than username and password to set up an email account so I know my school does not have any restrictions on this type of thing.
Does anyone know what I should do? The Verizon store had no idea.

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Android :: Sync Information And Future Information

Jul 7, 2010

I am a Mac user (photographer/ videographer). I also rely heavily on my iPod Touch when mobile (i can often find a wifi signal when i am out and about). I use iCal on the Touch and iCal on my Mac as well as the address book on both everyday and as a Mobile Me user, my two devices sync so everything is mirrored and up to date. I also HATE AT&T for their terrible signal strength and coverage and have been a loyal Verizon customer for many years and this is why I don't have an iPhone. Okay, all that being said, is there an easy way to still use everything I love and rely on with my Mac (the calender and address book, mainly) and easily sync all of my existing information and future info to an Android based device? How easy is it to use an Android device with a Mac? I don't want to have to manually re-enter my entire address book into a new device.

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Android :: Pin / Password Protect An App

Aug 4, 2010

How do I protect an app with a PIN / Password like mint.com does? This would need something like a session variable that resets when the user navigates away from app by pressing HOME or BACK. How do we accomplish this?

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Android :: Password Protect An App?

May 3, 2010

Is there anything out there that can prevent an app from being launched without a password? Primarily I want to prevent gmail, google voice, and messaging from being launched without a password.

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Android :: Need Password Protect Gps App

Sep 1, 2010

Is there an app which can protect my gps?

I want to set a password on my phone to protect the gps so you have to enter a password to either turn the gps on or off.

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Android :: Better Way To Protect Apps - Get A License Key?

Apr 6, 2009

Just did a little search on google with my paid app name, I found these:

http://www.ipmart-forum.com/archive/index.php/t-337082.html http://droidappz.co.cc/index.php/board,21.0.html

Someone bought the priced app from market with the "rooted" phone and copy the apk file, then post on the websites for others to download.

Should Android team give a better way to protect the priced apps?

For example, encrypt the apk with the unique device hardware id for each download request. And verify the key before execution. So the apk can only be used on this phone.

There should be much better and complicated ways. but this is the basic idea.

I have checked the BlackBerry app world, looks like they have something different:

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/appworld/faq.jsp

>My application requires a license key, how can I get a license key to >the end user? >BlackBerry App World asks you to indicate that an application requires >a license key. The license key models supported include Static, >Single, Pool or Dynamic.

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Protect Settings Menu With Android App?

Jan 23, 2012

My employer has told me to create an android app to do the following:

The ability to password protect specific submenus in the Settings menu (i.e. specifically Privacy, Applications, and Location & Security).

Is this possible without rooting?

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General :: How To Protect Android From Getting Messed Up

Mar 13, 2012

My parents are going on a trip in a month and they have there heart set on taking a smartphone with them.What they need is being able to call, text and mail.They also want to be able to use it as a backup (just in case) for finding their way. So just in case they get lost to find out where they are on their map or use the gps to guide them for a little while.

So basically, calling, sms, mail and gps. They don't need to be able to change a lot of settings.So, I was thinking about installing their (yet to buy) smart phone with a simple home screen and the settings they would need. To keep them from accidentally messing anything up, I was wondering if it is possible to password protect settings and stuff.

-how to protect settings etc.
-a good home screen
-other things like very simple gps app for example

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Android :: What Do You Do To Protect User From Dangerous Button?

Nov 2, 2010

I have an app out that involves keeping track of information over time. Part of the app is a reset button. In order to avoid accidental resets, I made that button respond only to long-clicks.However, that approach confused about 20% of my new users, who thought that the reset button must not be working.Is there a more intuitive (and standard) way to protect a button from accidental presses? (If not, I can add some sort of custom message to the button I have )

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Android :: Copy Protect Rights For Applications?

May 13, 2010

I'm getting many complaints that users can't find our paid app in the Android Market. I know exactly why. Our app is "Copy-Protected". So the questions is, if our paid app is already available all over the internet for FREE!! What's the point of copy protecting an app? Should I even care at this point about that feature? It seems I'm gonna get more sales if I disable copy protection, but makes me wonder.

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Android :: Want A Goog Way To Protect Application Files

Sep 11, 2010

I m designing a big android application, where there are XMLs to store temporary data, images captured by camera and other details. Which is the best way to protect them from outer access from phone or from PC. XMLs can be encrypted. And images too, however there are times when they need to be accessed very often and encrypting-decrypting is very heavy operation. XML encryption is manageable but images cause memory problems. Is there any alternative way, something at folder level ?

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Android :: Password Protect The MicroSD Card?

Aug 9, 2010

we can password protect our phones but we still have info on the SD card, is there anyway to password protect it so someone can't just remove it and plug it into a reader or another phone and look at the info?

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Android :: Protect A Variable To Be Accessed Only By One Thread At Once?

Nov 18, 2010

I have a variable on my "SharedPreferences", that is accessed by two different threads, one in a service, and one in a activity.

There is a easy way to protect this variable to be accessed by two threads at once?code...

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Android :: Protect HTTP Request From Being Called By Others

Jun 18, 2010

I have an Android application from which I want to upload some data to a database on my web server. As the MySql java library has a size of about 5 mb, I don't want to include it with the application.So I'll make a HTTP request for a php script and send the data with the URL as parameters. How do I make sure that only I can call this? I don't want people to sniff up the URL and call it outside my application.

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Android : Need To Create A Private Jar

Apr 2, 2009

I'm currently developing my own Android widgets. To help me in future projects and speed up my developments, I've been trying to create a private jar that contains all those widgets (that extend from Android classes such as View or ViewGroup). To do that, I created a project and included all files (.Java and resources) in this project. I exported this as a jar file. To test this jar file I created a new project and tried to include my widgets using an XML layout. Unfortunately, it seems that the system does not "see" my resources. Looking at the Android source code, I noticed that android.jar contains its own resources so I assume this is possible.

I'm sure I've done something wrong...but what? What is the problem? And how to solve it?

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Android :: Protect Shared Data Between Service And Thread

Jun 23, 2010

I'm doing an application that requires that certain thread access data that's shared among it and another service.How can I protect these shared data form accessing in the same time is there anything in android for that or android has nothing to do with this as Java API's will do the job.

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Android :: Programmatically Protect Folder With Password In Droid?

Sep 17, 2010

Is there a way to programmatically protect the folder with password in Android ?

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General :: How To Protect Hardware Damage In Rooted Android

Apr 29, 2013

I want to know that how to protect rooted phone from any hardware damage due to overheating etc

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Android :: Private Input Method

Apr 29, 2010

I create an input method that is private, not available to other applications on the phone?

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Android :: How To Block Private Number

Sep 17, 2010

Most of my work phone calls are unknown number and lately I kept getting a phone call from a private number every half hour or so and it only ring once then hang up. I want to block that private number but not the unknown, I tried couple of apps but it doesn't allow me to just block private number. I have to block unknown, private etc..

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Android :: An App For Public / Private Purpose?

Nov 10, 2010

iFMW was upgraded: Mobile site for public person or private file share for secret person in one app.

It has two inversion functions on one app.
Public person can get his/her own public web site on the phone and secret person can use only private file sharing directly on the phone without uploading.
Those who want two demands above will use whole functions.

What will you choose of those choices?

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Android : Want App To Make Private Folder

Jun 30, 2010

I'm looking for an app that u can throw all your videos, pictures, music or whatever into a folder than can be locked with a password.

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Android : Private Content Provider

Sep 28, 2010

I am developing an application that involves some sensitive user information. I retrieve this information via a private web API. I am trying to determine the best way to get this data into my app. Right now I'm exploring creating a content provider that can do so; my hesitation is in making it secure. I want this data to be usable only by my application. Ideally, no other apps would even know it exists.

Do you have any pointers or advice on how to do this effectively and securely? Any info on content providers who's data source is a remote OAuth'd API?

I say content provider, but if that isn't the best way to do what I need, by all means let me know what else to look into.

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Android :: Password Protect Applications With Easy Toggle Widget

Sep 30, 2010

Is there an app that lets me passwordl protect certain apps and that also has a widget for easily turning it on or off. I have looked at some but I am not sure if they have a widget. I tried applock but it doesn't. Do you guys know of any app like this.

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Android :: How To Make Video File Private To App?

Dec 23, 2009

I have some new requirement. I have to write a video player which plays the content from the net.Some times the app downloads the video content, and this downloaded data should be private to only my app. No one should not access it.Simply saying providing security to my own content (though the content is taken from the sdcard, it should not be playable).

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Android :: How To Create A Private Calendar Appointment?

Jun 8, 2010

I synchronize my HTC Desire calendar with an Exchange server.How can I on the phone when I create a new appointment mark it as "private"? I do not want people at my work to see all my calendar appointments. It was possible on my old HTC with windows Mobile.

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Android :: How To Access Other Package's Private Files?

May 24, 2009

I'm trying to find a way to access private files created by other packages.According to the dev site (plz see the following), I can read/write files of other packages if some flags are set on the create of those files, but I don't know how. Can I just open those files with Context.openFileInput(or Context.openFileOutput)? Do I need a different way for those three cases? By three cases, I mean getSharedPreferences(String, int), openFileOutput(String, int), openOrCreateDatabase(String, int, SQLiteDatabase.CursorFactory).

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Android :: Private Fields Naming Guidelines

Jan 25, 2010

Here http://source.android.com/submit-patches/code-style-guide#shortmethods it is stated that :

"Field Names
* Non-public, non-static field names start with m.
* Static field names start with s.
* Other fields start with a lower case letter.
* Public static final fields (constants) are ALL_CAPS_WITH_UNDERSCORES.

also states that : "The rules below are not guidelines or recommendations, but strict rules. You may not disregard the rules we list below except as approved on a need-to-use basis." I don't like the "m" convention before private or package fields in a class... I really find this uninspired. I mean, if we try to apply good designs, the low coupling of the classes implies having few public fields. actually, in my programs I usually have no public fields, even when I need some I use getters and seters. so, why should I be forced to have almost all my fields in the program with an "m" in front of them? wouldn't be easier to have the few public fields, if there are any, with some "g" in front or something? or just use setters and geters as beans suggest? this really makes my code harder to read. also, following these guidelines, local temp variables used in the methods have no restriction so they could easily be mistaken for public global fields (also without restriction). this also I find to be wrong, as it is a probable source of mistakes. I understand to have a way of differentiating from fields, but private/protected member fields are the most used in an application, they shouldn't be less "readable". what do you think? should I follow the guidelines?

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Android :: Obtaining A Private Key Through The Keytool For App Release

Nov 24, 2010

I can't find a tutorial online that gives me the step by step process on how to generate a suitable key using the keytool in the JDK.

This: http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.html

Talks about it and gives commands, but it doesn't actually say where and in what folder to key in the commands. I am sure I am missing something easy here, but could anyone guide me to where I need to start with this?

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